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Charlie Haughey with a cup of tea outside his north Dublin mansion in 1995 Photocall Ireland

In pictures: Haughey's former mansion at Abbeville on sale for €7.5m

It once played host to Luciano Pavarotti…

WITH 14 BEDROOMS and 6 reception rooms across 14,600 square foot and over four floors, you’d have plenty of room at the former home of ex-taoiseach Charles Haughey that has gone on sale for a cool €7.5 million today.

The Georgian mansion is situated close to Kinsealy and is just 10 kilometres from Dublin City Centre.

Located on 247 acres of park and woodland, it once played host to the likes Luciano Pavarotti.

The property has been put on the market by Savills at the request of the receiver Tom Kavanagh and is a private sale. There will be no open day but Pat O’Hagan said this morning they “had a few calls already”.

“People have been up early this morning,” he told Morning Ireland.

The Georgian mansion dates back to the mid-1700s when John Beresford, then the chief tax collector commissioned renowned Irish architect James Gandon to remodel the property around the existing structure in 1792, giving it all the grandeur that can be seen today.

This grandeur includes the Grand Ballroom which features three original panted roundels by the neoclassical painter Angelica Kauffman.

Once a stud farm, it was acquired by the then Finance Minister Charles Haughey in 1969 and still has a number of stable yards and twenty-three stables as well as an indoor equestrian arena.

The property also features a Gandon-designed dairy, two cottages – a gate lodge and gardener’s cottage, an outdoor swimming pool, walled gardens and extensive barns and outbuildings.

The property was sold in 2003 to Manor Park Homes for five times the amount that is being sought now. There had been intentions to develop a  leisure resort that would include an 18-hole golf course, a hotel and luxury homes but this never came to fruition.

The Haughey family continued to live in the property up until the former Taoiseach’s death in June 2006.

All enquiries should be directed to Savills Ireland. (All pictures: Savills, unless where stated)

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    Jul 2nd 2024, 8:49 AM

    What is the difference between a jet engine and a pilot?

    The jet engine stops whining when the plane shuts down.

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    Jul 2nd 2024, 10:25 AM

    Aer Lingus CEOs are making millions per annum, even through covid the top 3 in the company were splitting some €4million between them while on base salaries way over what these folks are looking for. Take what you can get Pilots!!!

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    Jul 2nd 2024, 12:11 PM

    I don’t know about you but if I’m getting into a metal tube to fly at 1000km/h, 6 miles above terra firma, I want to know that the guy at the pointy end is well rested, stress free and happy in his job and is ready and willing to save us all if the grim reeper comes knocking!! Pay them what they want!

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    Pilot’s favourite song, gonna stand my ground and I won’t back down (even if I’m being unreasonable).

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    Jul 2nd 2024, 9:09 AM

    Big lazy bozo pilots ruined everyone’s holidays.

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    Jul 2nd 2024, 10:47 AM

    Are people getting reimbursed of their ruined holiday with all the costs included ? If not sue them ! Ruin their paradise, go after them, make them think twice before they do it again !

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    Jul 2nd 2024, 12:06 PM

    @Dominic Leleu: first world problems

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    @Dominic Leleu: The blame here falls squarely with the pilots.

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    Jul 2nd 2024, 4:49 PM

    @Pat Barry: LOL

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    Jul 2nd 2024, 7:55 PM

    €269,000 Euro share bonus received by invisible ‘CEO’ Lynn Embleton last week. All while she watched her understaffed operation cause flight cancellations and untold misery for the travelling public. What working conditions did she sacrifice in order to get this? She can’t say she increased her productivity anyway!

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    @KB: Understaffed? The reason for the cancellations is the action by the pilots.

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    Jul 2nd 2024, 9:06 PM

    @KB: 2022 Aer Lingus staff = 4,291/ passengers carried 9.02M
    2022 Iberia staff = 15,499/ passengers carried 88.4M

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    Jul 2nd 2024, 9:58 PM

    @Pat Barry: they don’t have 4,291 pilots. They are understaffed and that is why the work to rule led to so many cancellations.

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    Jul 2nd 2024, 10:26 PM

    @KB: That’s total employees, how can Iberia carry 10 times the amount of passengers with over 3 times the staff, they must be seriously understaffed.

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